The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Edition, DVD)

*This had capitals in place when I wrote it :-) When you're dealing with a literary classic such as Lord of the Rings that is about to be made into a film, there's always going to be a fair few people who are going to throw their hands up in the air and declare it to be the end of the world. When I heard that Peter Jackson was going to put together this elaborate, ground-breaking slog of a trilogy in New Zealand, I thought it'd either be very, very good or a very, very expensive flop. You could just see people waiting to find some reason to criticise. It seems now, with the third and final installment due this year (December 17th, ...  Read the complete review

I picked this up straight away yesterday, like many fans, I though I was fortunate to find it on the shelves, expecting to have been sold out almost immediately with retailers using the usual hype trick of under ordering so that they could say it sold out in record time. Instead I found plenty of copies available in my local WHSmith. I picked it up and took it to the counter and got a free poster all for the reasonable price of £18.99. I have spoken to a friend who bought it at HMV Manchester for £19.99 without the free poster. There are two discs contained within the box. Disc 1 contains the full 171 minute film and disc 2 contains a veritable plethora ...  Read the complete review

Before the films came out I had hardly even heard of Tolkien (apologies to any diehard fans now). However, since the work of Peter Jackson I completely fell in love with all his works (or as my family would say, became completely obsessed). So I thought it would be quite fitting to review the film that kicked it all off. The Fellowship of the Ring tells the story of a young hobbit, Frodo Baggins, and the beginning of his quest to destroy the One Ring to save the world where he lives (Middle-Earth). This is the same Ring that his uncle, Bilbo Baggins 'found' in The Hobbit - courtesy of the creature Gollum. On his journey we meet many creatures including three ...  Read the complete review

A stunning masterpiece, having never every shown any interest in wizardry and mystical things, I was pulled along to see this by my husband when it was out at the cinema and I was hooked! This 3 hour film is the first in a trilogy and completely set in a mythical world, it follows the story of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit, along with his friend Samwise Gamgee is given a ring by his uncle Bilbo Baggins to look after for him, this ring is trying to get back to its master who will then destroy the world. A trust old wizard Gandalf who discovers Frodo has the ring when it was long thought it had been destroyed, Gandalf tells Frodo he must get away as far as possible as ...  Read the complete review

NOTE: This is a review for the extended edition of the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. There was nothing specifying which DVD this was for but this is purely for the Extended Edition, thank you... The Book The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the first in the trilogy of films by director Peter Jackson taken from the 1930-40s novels by J.R.R.Tolkien. The books were published between 1937 and 1949. The Fellowship of the Ring was released in 1937. The story loosely follows on from an earlier work by Tolkien, 'The Hobbit'. This is a tale of Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, going on an adventure across Middle Earth and ...  Read the complete review